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Cincinnati, 

PRINTKKS AND ENGRAVERS. 



1891 

Copyrighted by 

O. P. McCartt. 



ijenj. ^. J0txrcs0rt JxzKxd txora. 



Mr. Editor of the Jitrnal. 

Respectud Sur: ** 

_ A Town feller, from in around your 

baily-wick somers, lectchurd fer us tother night at Little Bethel on 
"The Fewd of Rich and Pore"; and whiles the congergashun, sich as 
it was, was a-dispursin, I made free to put a bug in his ear. 

Says I to him, says I : "They's another topickl'dlike toheeryou 
treat of," says I, "and that's The Fewd of Townfolks and Country- 
jakes." 

"Will you eloosidate a little furder?" says he; and I done so to 
the best of my abilities. 

Says I: "The country element is just as good as the town ele- 
ment, and vicey-versey", says I: "[and both,' I says, " is eviduntly 
ekal in the favor of the Good Bein," says I. 

"Grantud," he says. 

"Then," says I, "why don't we like each other, and mix more, 
and nabor as we ort ?" 

Says he : "My friend, you have give me a new thought and a 
meaty one. What is your idy of the answer to your question ?" 

Says I : " That question, in my jedgemunt, can only be set at rest 
when these two contendin facshuns," says I, "agrees ammuckerbly to 
compermise in some territoryial way — er, in other words." says I, 
"when your city people comes halfway, and moves into the sooburbs, 
whare we can git at 'em comfortable; then we'll not scruple," says I, 
"to come the other half." 

It was these thoughts, tharefore, in a nutshell, ]\Ir. Editor, that 
give rise to the foUerin lines in my head, which I call— 



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They's a predjudice alius twixt Country and Town, 

Which I wisht in my hart wasent so. 
You take City people, jest square up and down, 

And theyr mighty good people to know. 
And whare's better people a-livin, to-day, 

Than us in the country ? — Yit, good 
As both of us is, we're divorsed, you might say, 

And won't compermise, like we should. 



Now as nigh into town fer yer Pap, ef you please, 

Is what's called the Sooburbs ; — fer thare 
You'll at least find the breeze, and the birds in the trees, 

And the hum of the bees ev'rywhare. 
They's room fer the children to play, and they's room 

Fer the toddlers to roll in the grass — 
They's room fer the first apple-blossoms to bloom — 

Yes, and room fer the first apple-sass. 



My Son-in-law said, when he lived in the town. 

He jest natcherly pined, night and day, 
Fer a sight of the woods, er a acre of ground 

Whare the trees wasent all cleared away. 
And he says to me onct, whilse a-visitin' us 

On the farm, "It's not strange, I declare. 
That we can't coax you folks, without raisin' a fuss. 

To come to town, visitin' thare." 



And says I, "Then git back whare you sort o* belong- 

And Madaline, too, and yer three 
Little childern," says F "that don't know a bird-song, 

Ner a hawk from a chicky-dee-dee. 
Git back," says I, "to the blue of the sky 

And the green of the fields, and the shine 
Of the sun, with a laugh in yer voice and yer eye 

As harty as Mother's and mine, 



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Well,— long and short of it— he's compermised some- 
He's moved in the Sooburbs.— And now 
They don't haf to coax, when they want us to come, 

'Cause we turn in and go anyhow— 
Fer thare— well, they's room fer the songs and purfume 

Of the grove and the old orchard ground— 
And they's room fer the the childern out thare, and they's 
room 
Fer theyr Gran'pap to waller em round. 

Benj. F.Johnson, {James WhiUcmb Riley). 

FROM THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. BY PERMISSIONc 




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HERE is nowhere in all the region 
between the Alleghenies and the 
Rocky Mountains, or between 
the Lakes and the Gulf, a fairer 
land than that which is called 
the Duck Creek Valley. In a 
broad way it extends from Norwood to 
the heights at Madeira, and from Pleas- 
ant Ridge and the great Indian Hill across to the Lookout Hill. 
The slight ridge near Norwood divides the waters, part flowing 
west to Mill Creek and part east to Duck Creek. But at Madison- 
ville, which is at the east end of this valley there is an unobstructed 
view through its entire length to the western hills which lie beyond 
Mill Creek valley. A finer landscape there is not about Cincinnati. 
Is it any wonder that the eyes of the great city turn in this direction 
for the park of the future with its two thousand acres ? 

The prevailing winds are from the southwest. They traverse the 
valley its whole length, refreshing the lands in the heats of summer 
and quickly drying up the mud after the rains of spring and autumn. 
It is all historic and prehistoric ground. Here are the Indian 
mounds, works of a departed race. It was through this valley that 
broad streams once found an entrance to the Ohio, at the time when 
the northern hills of Cincinnati formed one extended island. Near Mad- 
isonville have been found prehistoric remains, rude implements con- 
trived and designed in the period that came before the Great Ice Age 
of North America. The whole region shows the evidences of great 
changes, but still of ancient occupation. 



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Beyond Madisonville the 
railroad runs by a winding 
track and steep grade to 
Madeira HiU, and thence 
across to the high table-land 
till it begins to descend to the 
beautiful valley of the Little 
Miami. Thence it runs along 
the right bank of this pictur- 

The distance from Loveland to Cincinnat. ..48 md s A r a^ T 
there is a double track, sixty-five-pound steel rads a fa ^^ ^^_ 

Cincinnati as Madisonville, IJ' ""^;^; ,'^^'1 Ir city stations dot 
tended to Loveland. Twenty-two to»'"^ "^ *^^° J^_ The air is 
this distance of twenty-five mdes -'^'^^^^X^tZ..^ or evening 
clear and pure ; there .s - -°f J^J^^ "/;„ Jl^d so a^e the roads, 
sun ; the drainage is perfect ; the water '^ goo > ^^.^^^^^ 

There are twenty trains """'"S^f* ^^^n towns on theUnes of 
stations are pretty and tasteful No -^urban town on .^ 

great eastern railroads are furnished ^vrth ^ «er fa" me^^. ^^^ 

Sere such an escape afforded and ^"^/f ^^ f ".^^ fj^ large city as 




its annoyances. Another 
advantage which is not to 
be overlooked, and which 
is common to all who live 
along the line of the road, 
is the convenience of the 
Central Station. One- third 
of this splendid building 
is owned by the Baltimore 
& Ohio Southwestern Co. 
It is near the great work- 
shops ot the city, and not 
far from the great stores. 
No time is lost either in 
getting to work, or in find- 
ing the place wherein to 
shopping. Railroad rates, and especially 
commuters' rates, are low, so low that, say as 
far out as Madisonville, the yearly cost is 
hardly more than the resident of the city's 
street- car fare. And who would not prefer the 
quick- moving suburban train to the crowded street-cars of the city? 

Finally, the railroad company furnishes free transportation for the 
first year between Cincinnati and the place at which a house is built, to 
the head of a family building a permanent residence costing not less 
than $i,ooo. Low rates are also made on the material used in the 
construction of such residence. 

With the unequalled advantages nature thus affords, with the con- 
veniences the railroad company is extending, with the easy access to 
and from the city, with the glorious views, the fine air, the wholesome 
character of village life, it is not surprising that the movement of pop- 
ulation is setting steadily and strongly in this direction. At the pres- 
ent rate of growth it will be a comparatively short time before the val- 
ley is one continuous settlement from Winton Place — the old Chester 
Park — even to the summit of the Madeira Hill. 

We pass from this general description to a more detailed account 
of the various towns and villages situated along the line of this road 



*A Cold Day on the 
B. & 0. S. W." 



between Cin- 
cinnati and 
Loveland. 
For details of 
rates, time of 
trains, for ex- 
act distance, 
we refer to 
the cards of,. 
the Com- 
pany. And 
first of the pretty town of 




LOVELAND, 



"Up Hill by Street Car." 



Situated at the extreme eastern hmits of 
Hamilton County. Through the midst of 
it flows the Litde Miami River. Hills, and 
steep ones they are, surround it on every side. High up on the side 
of one of these is the new school-house. Below it the town, which 
has a population of 1 500, is mainly spread out. Across the river, and 
reached by a substantial bridge, are the pleasant homes of many of. 
the citizens of this old and pretty town. Well, indeed, was it named. 
By its slowest train it is only an hour and fifteen minutes from the 
city, by its fastest only fifty minutes. Not a few of the prominent 
business and professional men of the city have their homes here— and 
beautiful ones they are — content to spend both time and money because 
they can find here a refuge from the discomforts of the city in which 
their business hfe is spent. Business in the city, a home in the country 
—this is their ideal of hfe. Is it not a good one ? 

The history of the town runs back a good way into the past. The 
record of surveys begins with the 27th of May, 1788, and the coming 
antiquarian will find little difficulty in following the ever-widening cur- 
rent of events, by means of transfers of property and land records. 
You can go as far back as 1794, when Col. Ramsey, who led the ad- 
vance guard of Mad Anthony Wayne's army, settled here. His was 
the first house built between the Litde Miami and Scioto rivers. The 



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little settlement 
grew, and at last, 
in 1847, they 
arrived at the 
dignity of a store 
started and kept 
by Mr. James 
Loveland, after 
town was named. 



whom the 

On the 1 6th of May, 1876, the 
limits of the town were extended 
by vote of the commissioners 
of Clermont County, so as to 
take in portions of Hamilton 
and Miami Counties, and the 
first election of the present vill- 
age was held on May 29th of 
"Up Hill on the B, & 0. S. W." tj^^t year. 

From that time on the town began to improve, streets were put 
in good condition, new houses to spring up, and the attractions of the 
place to be understood. The town has three churches, a Presbyterian 
a Methodist and a Catholic. In West Loveland, just across the Little 
Miami, is a colored Baptist chnrch. There are two schools. The High 
School, lately built at a cost of $8000, stands on Loveland Heights* 
The other school is in West Loveland, and is a handsome building. 
The village has a steam fire department, and is one of the few towns 
in Southern Ohio that has. The department , consists of three com- 
panies — an engine company, a hose company and a hook and ladder 
company. 

The town hall, or city building, as Lovelanders like to hear it 
called, was dedicated last year. It was built under a special act of the 
Legislature, and cost $15,000. It has a fine hall, or opera house, that 
will accommodate 600 people. The Mayor's office and the Council 
Chamber are in this building. There is also in it a free reading-room 
under the management of the Woman's Temperance Union. There 
are three secret societies in the town — Masonic, Odd Fellows and 
Knights of Pythias. The town has a planing-mill, a flour-mill, a 



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pump and a carriage 
factory, one lumber 
and two coal yards, 
trunk store, and the 
various little shops 
that the needs of an 
active and prosper- 
„ ous community 

y(0 would naturally demand. It has two 
building associations, one of which is of 
recent establishment. The growth and 
prosperity of the older one "The Love- 
land Mutual Building and Loan Co." 
augurs well for the new one. Money can 
be borrowed on the usual terms. 

ALONG THE RIVER. 

Just after the train leaves Loveland, 
"City Tenement-Front View." ^j^g f^^e and ncw bridge over the Little 
Miami is crossed. It is a very substantial structure which has only 
recently taken the place of an old one. That old one it is proposed 
to use at no distant day as a wagon bridge across the river at Ep worth 
Heights. These great Methodist assembly grounds he a mile and a 
half down the river from Loveland, on the east bank of the Little Miami. 
Just before reaching these grounds, we pass through Lounsberry. 



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•' As the trains roll 
along the bank 
of the river, charm- 
ing and picturesque 
glimpses are caught 
of the beautiful 
winding stream, and the valley 
broadens as the train speeds on. 

SYMMES. 



This village lies directly on the Little 
Miami River. It has good drainage, as, 
indeed, have all the stations on the line 
of this road. There is one general store, 
a post-office and a flour mill. Just across 
the river, and connected with Symmes by a suspension bridge is, 

BRANCH HILL, 
Really constituting with Symmes one town. Here is a pretty little 
Methodist Episcopal church, and a good school. 

Just after leaving Symmes, the track turns away from the Little 
Miami bottoms, and, bending to the west, begins to make its way up 
toward the high table land, at the top of which is situated Madeira, 
passing on the way 




'A Home In the Co\mtry.\ 



REMINGTON. 



It is only about two miles west of Symmes, and is little more than 
a hamlet, with a population of about one hundred. It has a good 



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brick school-house 
and one church, two 
stores, a postoffice and 
a grist-mill. Here is a 
fine bridge over the 
Sycamore Creek, 
which flows east and 
empties into the Litttle 
Miami river. Looking 
off towards the south- 
east is a view that will 
remind the through 
traveler of what he has 
already seen just east 
of Cranberry Summit^ 
on the Baltimore & Ohio road. 
Of course it is not as extended as 
that, but it is hard to divest one's 
self of the impression that one is here in a 
mountainous country, and still harder to realize 
that one is within a few miles of the Ohio 
River. 

Up the grade the train runs on through the litde setdement of Al- 
landale, and a mile and a half beyond Allandale 



"City Tfiionient— Rear 
View." 



MADEIRA. 



This town is eight and one-third miles from Loveland by rail, and 
sixteen and one-half from Cincinnati. Madeira is at the summit 



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from which flow in op- 
posite directions Syca- 
more Creek, ah-eady 
^ spoken of, that empties 

^J^_A into the Little Miami, 
■iJ^^ and Duck Creek.which 
after a very tortuous 
course, flows into the 
same stream, but con- 
siderably further down. 
The railroad runs 
through a narrow val- 
ley about 300 ft. wide, 
the land rising on 
either side about one 
hundred feet higher; 
that is, on the high 
table land you are on a 
part of the great sweep- 
ing Indian Hill, which 
has about the same 
hei<Tht as Mt. Lookout. Kennedy 
Hetghts or Price Hill-all say 45° leet 
above low water mark of the Ohio. 
About a mile and a half east of the 
village the Miamiville pike intersects 
with the pike to [Loveland. Thence 
the two run into the village, and there 
ioinino Miami Avenue, the three pour their united travel into the 
ZZnlle pike, which, passing through MadisonviUeru-^^^^^ to 
the city. All these roads are in good condition and all free of toll 

Madeira has a population of about 350. /^^-^^^^^"^ 
a Methodist. Presbyterian, and "the Church of Christ. It supports 
Odd Fellows' lodge, a graded school and three stores 

From Madeira the road begins to descend by a ^^^''f'^^'^ 
grade and a winding track that reminds one even -re -of /J^^^^^ 
does the scenery about Remington of the mountains. At last a sudden 
tZ is made, aid lo ! the entire beautiful valley, at least eight miles 




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"■"A City Home toy the 
Mill Site." 



long, is spread before 
you. Off to the south- 
west is Mt. Lookout; far 
away to the west are the 
great hills that rise be- 
# yond Mill Creek. The 

Indian Hill sweeps 
around to the north until 
it runs into Kennedy 
Heights and Pleasant 
Ridge. It is a glorious panorama, full of 
old inviting forest trees, villages dotting the 
landscape, thrifty farm houses scattered here 
and there, and away off, beyond the far 
hills to the extreme southwest, the smoke- 
cloud hovering and resting over the great 
city. Just below you is 



MADISONVILLE 



with East Madisonville reached a half mile sooner. 

On the ground"TVIadisonville seems to be on a plain. Seen from 
Kennedy Heights or Mt. Lookout it is situated on a hill-side that slopes 
gently to the south-west. It has a population of about 3,000, and is 
the largest and most important place between Cincinnati and Love- 
land. The first settlement was made— in these modern times— in 



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But everybody in the 
can tell you 
about the Indian Mounds, a 
mile to the south, and about 
the remains older by ten thou- 
sand years, discovered in a 
gravel bed in the vicinity, de- 
posited there, who can tell how 
long before the great glacier of 
the north came sweeping down 
over the land, driving life of 
every kind before it, and ob- 
literating all life that remained, 
though saving evidence of life 
that had been before its coming. 

Settled in 1809, it was incorporated 
as a town in 1876, With its incorporation 
began a new era. Many improvements 
have been made in the way of new well 
paved streets, and side- walks, and many 
beautiful dwellings h^ve been erected. 
Gravel is naturally abundant inthe vicin- 
ity, and the principal streets, even in wet 
weather, are in a condition that many a 
town of more pretension might well envy. The depot is one of the 
most tasteful on the line of the road. The town hall, completed last 



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uuuuuuuuuuutj uuuuuuuuui t year, at a cost of $12,- 

000, is a handsome 
edifice. It is situated 
on a square in the 
center of the towi 
and in it the village 
council holds its 
meetings. Just to the 
south of this is the 
pretty little Baptist 
Church, and, not far 
away, the public 
school building, a 
fine structure, with 
primary, intermedi- 
ate and high school 
departments, their standing as to discipline and scholar- 
ship being equal to the best schools of Cincinnati. 
There are seven churches, a fact which speaks well for 
the morality, sobriety and intelligence of the village. 
These churches are occupied respectively by Methodists, 
Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Catholics, Baptists, Luth- 
erans and Christians. The town supports a weekly newspaper, one 
dry goods store, some groceries, and two tin shops, and its streets are 
well lighted. Land is cheap and rents are low. There are two 
building associations, the Cottage and the Madison, each having a 
capital of ^1,000,000, divided into shares of $500 each. Any one de- 
siring to build a house can borrow sufficient money for the purpose, 
by giving a mortgage on the premises. 

It does not need great foresight to see that the time is not distant 
when Madisonville will be an attractive field for the industrious and 
ever present speculator. It is not quite as far from the Grand Central 
Depot, as Glendale is from that of the Hamilton & Dayton. By pike 
it is only Itttle more than half as far. It is at the head of a valley 
through and up which come the grateful breezes of summer. The 
roads round about it are good now, but the county is already engaged 
in extensive improvements which cannot but help Madisonville property. 
It will- be a short time only before the drive to Madisonville will be the 



'A Holiday in 
the City." 



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fairest one 
about the city 
When this is 
done, Madi- 
sonville and 
C i n cinnati 
will be nearer 
n e i ghbors 
than ever, and 
better acqua- 
inted withone 
another. Be- 
sides this, the 
future Park of 
the city must inevitably be aid 
out in this immediate vicinity. 
Whether it be of one thousand 
or two thousand acres, it will be 
of as much use and enjoyment 
to Madisonville as to the city. 
No one can visit the line of the new boule- 
vard and not see that a bright future is in 
store for the town that was not long ago 
rather sleepy and quiet, and that already 
>/j / fl/I ^^^s the impulse towards new life and larger 

J^/ /■ enterprises. Everything is in its favor — its 

-A Holiday in the Country,- established character for order and intelli- 
gence, its situation, its new spirit, and the help which is bound to be 
given it by the great city that is so near. It is only about three-quarters 
of an hour away from the city, on the slow trains, and a little over 
half an hour on the fast ones. This is practically the same time that 
is required by the residents of East Walnut Hills to get to their homes 
on the cable cars; and living is much cheaper in Madisonville, and the 
demands of society much less exacting. The train goes on through 

OAKLEY. 

It shows favorably with other villages on the line in the wealth of 
natural advantages, and has a population of about 500. The town is 




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beautifully located, surrounded by fine groves of beautiful forest trees, 
and commanding a view of Mt. Lookout, Kennedy Heights and the 
hills in the immediate vicinity. It lies upon a platform about two hun- 
dred feet above the river, insuring good drainage. Its streets and 
sidewalks are well laid and in good condition, as are also the roads in 
the vicinity. The Episcopalians have a very pretty church, where 
services are held every Sunday. The town has a good school building 
and graded schools. The Oakley Loan and Building Association is 
in a prosperous condition, and contemplates building a town hall 
during the present year. Its industries are a window-sash and door 
factory ; a flour, feed and grain store ; grocery and drygoods stores ; 
a blacksmith and two wagon making shops ; the Mitchells' rosery, 
whence thousands of roses are shipped daily to the city market. 
Here also is located the Gentlemen's Full Mile Driving Park, within 
a stone's throw of the railroad track. It has the finest trotting-track 
in the country, fully-equipped stables and a commodious amphitheatre 
or grand stand. Semi-annual meetings are held in the spring and fall, 
which attract turfmen and racing stock from all parts of the country. 
Several beautiful subdivisions have been platted, streets and sidewalks 
laid out, and the property is now in the market. 
Next comes 

• NORWOOD. 

What has been a matter of prophecy in Madisonville, is a matter 
of history in Norwood. Years ago, everybody knew the place as 
Sharpsburg. It consisted of a tavern, or way-side inn, on the Mont- 
gomery Pike, around which were a few scattering houses. It was not 
an inviting neighborhood. Its new life began ten or fifteen years ago 
when Mr. L. C. Hopkins, formerly a well known and prominent dry- 
goods merchant of Cincinnati, made the discovery that nature had 
done much for it, that it had good railroad communication into the 
city, that it was two hundred and forty feet above low water mark of 
the Ohio river, that its drainage was good, that the scenery was fine, 
and that in short it was to Cincinnati in 1875, what Clifton, Avondale 
and East Walnut Hills had been in 1840, and Mt. Auburn in 1820. 
With his characteristic enterprise, he sat himself to work to create a 
new village, which he called Norwood. It grew rather slowly at first, 



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but it has been well said, that in the last eight years its growth has 
been phenomenal. Little detached settlements began to spring up 
around the original nucleus, and a little more than three years ago, 
these small settlements or subdivisions, known as South Norwood, 
East Norwood and Old Norwood, and incorporated Sec. 34 of Columbia 
Township, united in one village. They were in the midst of the beau- 
tiful valley. Walnut Hills was to the south of them. To the north 
approached by the Montgomery Pike, was Pleasant Ridge, with the 




Depot— Norwood. 

old Indian Mound, the only one now remaining in the vicinity of the 
city, half way up the hill, in plain sight. To the east was Madisonville 
and to the west the Millcreek Hills. 

They started with two streets, so called. To-day it would be hard to 
tell how many they have — at least a dozen in process of construction. 
They had at first in population but a few hundred. To-day they have 
as many thousand. Pastures and corn-fields have been transformed 
into lawns and pleasant building lots. Cement sidewalks will take 
the place this summer of mud walks. The pride of the village is Floral 
Avenue, one hundred and twenty feet wide throughout its length of a 



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mile, one-half of which is paved with asphalt. There are seven railroad 
stations within the corporate limits of the village, and two post-offices. 
The Bo-ard of Council is now hard at work on a system of sewerage 
for the village. The Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Berean Bap- 
tists, German Lutherans and Catholics all have stated places of wor- 
ship. The Presbyterians have recently occupied their new church on 
Floral Avenue. It is a beautiful edifice of Gothic design, is hand- 
somely furnished, lighted with gas, equipped with a furnace, and cost 
about $8,000. The Methodist Church, very pretty and tasteful, is 




Depot— East Norwood, 
situated on Harris Avenue, and cost $7,000. The Catholics have a 
fine Church building, and maintain also a parochial school. The 
public school building is on the Montgomery Pike. It is a graded 
school, and now has a High School Department, About four yearr. 
ago an addition was made to the building, at a cost of $10,000. The 
school board has lately bought property in the west and south portions 
of the village whereon to erect primary buildings. The corps of teach- 
ers is an excellent one, and the schools hold a high place among those 
of the county. Its town hall is not a source of any special pride. It 
was built while Norwood was yet young, and is already too old for the 



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wants of the enterprising community. It is hardly hkely to be long 
before it will be replaced by a new building better adapted to the pub- 
lic wants. The body of citizens is made up of those who spend the 
day in the city, each engaged in his own special calling. The business 
portion of the town is situated along the Montgomery Pike. Here 
everything needed for the household can be purchased at city prices, 
and all the large drygoods and grocery houses ot the city have deliv- 
ery [wagons making daily, tri -weekly and semi weekly trips. The 
houses are generally neat, cosy and attractive, though here and 
there is a more pretentious structure. In East Norwood there is one 
house that is reported to have cost ^40,000, while there are quite a num- 
ber that cost from ^5,000 to $1 5,000. In view of the fact that the first 
house was built in 1884, this shows a rapid growth, which, however, 
does not appear to be of an ephemeral or unhealthy character. At the 
extreme east end of the village is situated the plant of the Hamilton 
County Brick and Building Company's common and dry-pressed 
brick. This plant has a capacity for six cars of common and two cars 
of dry-pressed brick daily. This company has subdivided its tracts of 
land lying south and east of the railroad tracks, and has appropriate- 
ly christened it Ideal Park subdivision. The main avenue is 1 50 feet 
wide, with a park in the center 40 feet wide. In no village along the 
line of this great thoroughfare have the possibilities of the territory 
been so successfully demonstrated as at Norwood. 

BOND HILL. 

A mile further along the road is Bond Hill, The village is situ- 
ated on the Paddock road, and is not far from the Carthage pike. It 
is a little distance away from the station, and therefore the attractive- 
ness of its site is not seen by the traveler. It is a pretty place of about 
eight or nine hundred inhabitants. It has its churches, its school- 
houses, its stores, its town hall. Here, too, are located the fine buildings 
and grounds of the St. Joseph's foundling and St. Aloysius orphan 
asylums. Its citizenship is exceedingly good, there being an unusually 
large proportion of lawyers and merchants. There is no reason why 
the merits and beauty of this little place should not be more generally 
understood. It is one of the freaks of real estate movements that a 



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situation as healthy as this, with society as good, with access to the 
city as easy and quick, should have attracted no larger population. 




Dopot— Hond Hill. 

Just beyond Bond Hill is first Ludlow Grove, at the foot of the 
long hill that leads up to St. Bernard, and a little further on is C. 
& S. Junction. In the near neighborhood are the great Erkenbrecher 
establishment and the greater establishment of the Proctor & Gamble 
Company, with its vast buildings and its unmistakeable air of business 

activity. 

More and more frequent grow the stations, more and more num- 
erous the signs and evidences of the approach to the city. At Wm- 
ton Place is seen, just [across the way, the city of the dead, borne 
out from the great city of the living to which we are rapidly drawing 
near. We are in the Mill Creek Valley, and already the air is seen to 
be different from the "pure air we were breathing twenty miles, ten 
miles, five miles, even two miles back. If an east wind happens to be 
blowing, the smoke of the city can be seen off in the south. If the day 
is cloudy, it is dark and gloomy even at midday. And when we reach 
East Cumminsville the crowded roadways, the noises, and the nume- 
rous dwelhngs of an order much inferior to those we have left behind 



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make us regret the necessity that compels the spending of even a 
few hours away from nature's own pleasant places. We roll through 
Cumminsville, and pass on to the Stock Yards, and in a minute or two 
get on to that great fill that used to be known as the Cincinnati and 
Baltimore road — a magnificent name for a road seven miles long, 
wasn't it ? Then all the immensity of the great cloud of smoke — the 
smoke of torment and tribulation — breaks upon us. Clifton's beauti- 
ful hillside no longer hides it from us. There has been a glimpse of 
a pretty waterfall — the overflow of a canal running high up above our 
heads ; of a picturesque little foot-bridge, but all that has been seen is 
forgotten in the immediate and visible presence of that vast, overhang- 
ing, awful darkness. "How do people live in such a place ?" is the in- 
voluntary exclamation of those who see it for the first time ; and even 
those who have grown used to the sight do not grow reconciled to its 
presence. The nearer the city we approach the more oppressive the 
sense of it all becomes. 




Depot— "Winton Place. 



So on we go, under the light, airy, graceful viaduct that, stretch- 
ing from Liberty street, spans the treacherous sands and waters of Mill 




Depot—Elgbth Street. 
Creek, affording safe and certain passage over the highest floods that 
ever have been or that, we hope, ever will be-and then on past he 
Ei-hth street station, with the indined plane, steepest about the city 
feading up to Price Hill; through the bed of the old Wh,tewater canal 
to the splendid terminus of the Baltimore & Ohio Southvvestern Ra> - 
road Company, the Grand Central Depot. We are m the very m.dst 

°^ ^'l^'what makes the day so dark ?" you ask. "The sun was shin- 
ing bright at Loveland," you.say ; "bright at Lounsberry, Symmes and 
RLnlton; bright at AUandale; bright on the he.ghts of Madara 
andat Madisonville; bright at Oakley, fair Norwood -d qujet Bond 
Hill • bright even at Ludlow Grove and Winton Place. Bu here it .s 
dark and damp and gloomy." "Oh," somebody says ">t s nothmg 
butthe Cincinnati smoke." And he asks: "Are you not glad you hve 
in the country, bright, sparkling, beautiful, full "^ ^^^or.^'f^^^^Z 
wholesomeness, where man stops not the sun from shmmg or the n^oon 
from giving her light? Are you not glad you took your fam ly from 
the dit and temptations of the city to > home in the beautiful valley, 
through the midst of the glory of which the Baltimore & Ohio South- 
western runs ? " 



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April, 1891, 




step Forward J Please." 



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Rates for Commutation Tickets. 



BETWEEN 

CINCINNATI 

AND 


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6 

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Eighth Street 

Brighton 


$0.10 
.10 
.10 
.15 
.15 
.20 
.25 
.25 
.25 
.25 
.25 
.30 
.35 
.35 
.45 
.50 
.55 
.60 
.65 
.70 


$0.15 

.15 

.15 

.25 

.25 

.35 

.45 

.45 

.45 

.45 

.45 

.55 

.65 

.65 

.80 

.90 

1.00 

1.10 

1.15 

1.25 


$0.70 
.70 
.70 
1.00 
1.00 
1.35 
1.70 
1.70 
1.70 
1.70 
1.70 
2.00 
2.35 
2.35 
3.00 
3.35 
3.40 
3.40 
3.45 
3.50 


$2.50 
2.50 
2.50 
2.50 
2.50 
2.75 
3.25 
3.25 
3.50 
4.00 
4.00 
4.50 
5.00 
5.00 
5.50 
6.00 
6.25 
6.50 
6.75 
7.00 


$1.50 
1.50 
1.50 
1.50 
1.50 
1.65 
2.05 
2.05 
2.10 
2.40 
2.40 
2.70 
3.00 
3.00 
3.30 
3.60 
3.75 
3.90 
4.05 
4 20 


$7.25 

7.25 

7.25 

7.25 

7.25 

8.00 

9.50 

9.50 

10.00 

11.50 

11.50 

13.00 

13.50 

13.50 

15.00 

16.50 

16.75 

17.00 

17.25 

17.50 


$1.65 
1.65 
1.65 
1.95 
1.95 
2.50 
3.05 
3.05 
3.40 
3.75 
3.75 
4.50 
5.40 
5.40 
-6.00 
6.50 
7.00 
7.50 
8.00 
8.65 


$25.00 
25.00 


Stock Yards 


25.00 


Cummi nsville 


25.00 


East Cumminsville 

Winton Place 


25.00 
30.00 


C. & S. Junction 


35.00 


Ludlow Grove 

Bond Hill 


35.00 
37.00 


Norwood 


43.00 


East Norwood 


43.00 


Oakley 


48.00 


Madisonville 


50.00 


East Madisonville 


50.00 


Madeira 


56.00 


Allandale 


61.00 




62.00 


Symmes 


G3.00 


Epworth Heights 

Loveland 


64.00 
65.00 







Epworth Heights tickets will be sold at Cincinnati office only during Camp 
Meeting season. ♦ 



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Commutation Ticket Rules and Regulations. 

Pamily Tickets, 25 single trips, are good four months for the person named 
thereon, or for members of the family, or for employes. 

Monthly Whole Tickets, 60 single trips, are good during the calendar month 
Issued and only for the individual named thereon. 

Monthly Salf Tickets, for the individual use of the person named thereon 
less than eighteen years of age, at one-half the rates for monthly whole tickets. 

Ladies' Tickets, for 30 single trips during the month, and only for the indi- 
vidual use of the lady named thereon. 

QiUarterly Tickets, 180 trips during the quarter for which they are issued, 
are good only for the individual use of the person named thereon. 

Annual Tickets, for the individual use of the person named thereon, are good 
during the year. 

Ten Ride Tickets, are good one year and for use of bearer. 
All Tickets are good only on such trains as are scheduled to stop at stations 
named thereon. 

Full Names will be inserted in all tickets for individual use. 

Monthly, Monthly Half and Ladies' Tickets will be sold on the last flve and 
first five days in each month; Quarterly Tickets on the first five and last five 
days of each quarter. 

Theatre Trains. 

The Company runs regular trains for the benefit of parties wishing to attend the 
Theatre or other entertainment, enabling suburban residents to go to their homes 
after close of business and return to the city for the evening, and again reach their 
homes at a reasonable hour. Special low^ rates of fare are made for these trains. 



Special Inducement to Builders. 



Free transportation for the first year between Cincinnati and the place at which 
a house is built will be furnished to the head of a family building a permanent resi- 
dence, costing not less than $1,000, at anj station on the line between Ludlow Grove 
and Loveland, and a low rate will also be made on the material used in the constru- 
t on of such residence. 

Full information in regard to Suburban property, for sale or for rent, also infor- 
mation about trains, rates of fare, etc., can be procured upon application to any 
Agent of the Company, to the Real Estate Agents, or from Mr. CHAS. H. KOENIG, 
District Passenger Agent, at the Companys City Office, Southeast Corner Fourth and 
Vine Streets, Cincinnati, O. 




Baltimore & Ohio 

Southwestern R. R. 

$2 -r NEW YORK. 

All Traiins Run Through 

Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia 

Are Vestibuled throughout and heated by Steam from the Engine. 



All Tickets Allow Stop at 
DEER PARK, OAKLAND AND MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK. 



"The: Midland Routte, 

Only Pullman Parlor Car line between 

Cincinnati and Columbus. 



TWO SOLID TRAINS TO 

* PITTSBURGH • 

VIA 

Colu.mt>t;is, Ne^wa-rlc, Zan-esville & ^?Vl^LeelirLg. 

With Pullman Sleeper and Buffet Parlor Cars. 

Rates always as low as by any other line, and No Extra Fare 
for fast time on limited Vestibuled trains. 

All trains arrive and depart from Grand Central Union Station. 

For Tickets, Pullman Accommodations and other information, 
call at City Offices, Southeast Corner Fourth and Vine Streets, Cin- 
cinnati, or at 402 Scott Street, Covington, Ky. 

CHAS. H. KOENIQ, DISTRICT PASSENGER AGENT. 

W.W. PEABODY, I.G. RAWN, O. P. McCARTY, 

Vice-President. <xen'I Supt, Geu'l Pass'r Agent. 




Kew Methodist Episcopal Church— Madisonville. 




New Tresbyterian Church— Norwood. 



DAILY, WEEKLY AND SUNDAY EDITIONS. 



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HENRY HAACKE^, 

Editor and Proprietor. 

.-u A \nr.^ «;trpet . Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Corner Longworth and Vine btreet, 



W. W. BROWN, Cashiek. 

D. J. FALLIS, rKBSIBBKT. >V STEVENS, ASS'T CASHIKK. 

H. C. YERGASON, Vice-President. CHAb. a. &xi^v 






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OINOINNATI^ OHIO, 

United States Depository. ■ 



Capital. $1,000,000. Surplus, $200,000 



—DIRECTORS. 



^ , V . T IIS SETH C. FOSTER. H. C. YERGASON. 

D. J. I ALLIS. » T.MFRSON ^- H- BALDWIN. 

J. H. ROGERS. LOWE EMERSON. STEVENS. 

J. N. KINNEY. .T. J. HOOKER. ^- ^- ' '^^^ ^^«- 




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Cottage Building & Loan Co. 



Of Columbia Townshiip, 

MADISONVILLEI, OHIO. 

Solicits Your Membership. 



Depositors Dues, 5° cts. per week. 

Borrowers Dues, Interest and Premium, . $i.oo " 

Average Dividend last three years, . . . j^j^ per cent. 
Amount Loaned on Mortgages, . . ;^2oo,ooo.oo 



R. J. H. Archiable, Pres't. WxM. McGowan, Sec'y. 

Samuel Hill, Treasurer. 

MEETINGS, THURSDAY EVENINGS. 

W. S, Rulison. S. Woodward. 

W. S. Rulison & Co., 

Real Estate, 

so East Third St. ^ Ol NO! N N ATI, O. 

Houses for Rent. Desirable Homes for Sale. 

LOTS ranging from $3.00 to $20.00 per foot, in Loveland, Allendale, 

Madisonviile, Norwood, Bond Hill and other suburbs. 
Will build a house according to your own plans. Small payment down, 

balance same as rent. 

Loans Negotiated. Rents Collected. 

The Handling of ESTATES for Non-Residents a Specialty. 
Members Real Estate Exchange. 



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Public School Building— MadisonviUe, 



]\/lADlSON 

^^^ BUILDING ASSOCIATION, 




No- 2. 

i H. B. AYHETSEL, President, 

C. S. MTJCHMOKE, Vice-President. 
C. B. CRUGAR, Treasurer. 

G. TOMPKINS, Secretakt. 
A. J. NELSON, Ass'T Sec'Y' 



DIRECTORS. 

J AS. JULIEN. 
GEO. SAUER. 

W. C. ROGERS. 
T. A. MOORE. 
J. ANDERSON WARD. 
G. EISHER. 

W. J. BEHYMER. 
GEO. W. LOSH. 
DR. C. L. METZ. 
J. T. DeMAR, Attornet. 



MADISON BUILDING ASSOCIATION No. 2 

Was Organized June 22, 1887. 



|;2, 200,000.00 
160,633.21 

. 24,124.78 

7 per cent. 

. 1,810 



Capital Stock, . • • • 

Receipts for the year 1890, 

Net profits for the year 1890, 

Dividend paid in cash, 

Shares in force at close of year, . 

Meets Monday Evening of each week. 

Precedence in receiving loans sold at each meetmg. 

Money always ready when security is satisfactory. 

SHARES, ^500.00. 

Weekly payment on borrowed share only ^i.^ , on depo.t.rs ^.are 
50 cents ; but any larger amount may be paid at ^^^^ op 
shareholder. The full amount paid credited as of that date. 

Dividend paid to all shareholders. 




Town Hall— Norwood, 




Puljlir Srlion] Building— Norwood, 



NORWOOD ! No Laadlords ! All Owners ! 

NEW SUBDIVISION, DRAKE TRACT, 

CENTRAL NORWOOD 

Near Town Hall, School House, Post Office, Telephone Station 
and K. of P., Odd Fellows and Masonic Lodges. 

On the B. & O. Southwestern and C. L. & N. R. R. 

TAEB 

"The Great Suburban" B. & O. S. W.. Grand Central Depot. 

"The Highland Route" C. L. & N., Court Street Depot. 

"The Consolidated" New Electric (now building) from Fountain Square. 

We refer to owners of 200 homes built by us, at East Norwood 
and South Norwood, also 

39 NEW HOMES ON THIS NEW SUBDIVISION. ALSO 9 NEW 
HOUSES, LOOK AT OUR WORK AND MATERIALS. 

NOW BUILDING, FOR SALE! 

Lots 30x130 feet only $350.00 each. $25.00 cash, balance $19.50 every 
three months. Without Interest. , 

Free Railroad Tickets, Plats of the Town at Office of 

BOFINGER & HOPKINS, 

1 59 Elm Street, North-west Corner of Fourth, 

OINOINNAXI, O, 

We do no Business on Sunday. Bailroad Tickets "will not be grood 

on that day. 



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Tl\i Photogpaphep, 



166 "West F^ourth. Street, 

Has introduced that great novelty THE rHOTO-AUTOGRATH PLAQUE. Yoiir 

portrait and signatures of your friends are burnt in a finely decorated French 

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meuce at once to get signatures. The Photos for this book taken by 



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JAMIN, 



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PuDlic School Buildin^-Loveland. 




Depot— Lovel.ind, 



THE 



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Permanent Plan. 

Capital Stock, $600,000. Shares, $250. Dues 25c., 

Loans, $ 1 04,750. Shares in force, 1,319. 

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Board of Directors. 
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Its Circulation keeps pace with the rapid growth of the Catholic 
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6th Floor Hulbert Block. 

Sixth and Vine Sts., Cincinnati, O. 



We have just issued a very 
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contains 200 illustrations and 
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NEW ERA, 



"ALL SHELL OYSTER" and "CHOP HOUSE " 
214 Vine street, Ol NOI N N ATI^ O, 



Opposite Grand Opera-house. 



F. J. DiKM. . . . . C. B. WING. 

DIEM & WING PAPER CO. 

PAPER BAGS, FLOUR SACKS AND TWINES, 

70-72-74-76 Walnut Street, . . . . CINCINNATI, O. 

MILLS, DAYTON, O. 



^To^certSfLoTeX"""'- K«oiiis |1.00 pcf day and upwards. 

First-Class in every respect. 



HOTEL Emery, 

Cincinnati, O. 

D. C. SHEARS, Proprietor. 



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Excellent Restaurant connected with the Hotel. 



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T COSTS YOU NOTHING tog^tinfo^-'ition, and help you 

select a home, or secure summer 
board at the Suburban Stations on our line. 

Re„'.fr.S SUBURBAN PROPERTY ^-^.^t^S^ 

Summer boarders, give us description, price, etc. 

If yau -want to Buy, Sell or Rent, Board or take Boarders, call on or address the Dis- 
TiacT Passexger Agent, Baltimore & Ohio Southwesterx R. R., Office, Comer 
Fourth and Vine Streets, Cincinnati, O. 



Deer Park and Oakland 



-CREST OF THE ALLEGHANIES,- 

3,000 FEET ABOVE TIDE-WATER. 



Season Opens June 15th, 1891. 



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jnHESE famous mountain resorts, situated at the summit 
of the Alleghanies and directly upon the main hne 
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, have the advantage 
of its splendid vestibuled express train service both east 
and west, and are therefore readily accessible from all 
parts of the country. All Baltimore and Ohio trains stop 
at Deer Park and Oakland during the season. 

Electric lights have been introduced throughout the 
houses and grounds ; Turkish and Russian baths and 
large swimming pools provided for ladies and gentlemen ; 
suitable grounds for lawn tennis ; bowling alleys and 
billiard rooms are here ; fine riding and driving horses, 
carriages, mountain wagons, tally-ho coaches, etc., are 
kept for hire ; in short, all the necessary adjuncts for the 
comfort, health or pleasure of patrons. 



Rates, $60, $75 and $90 a month, 

According to Location. 



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<aLL COMMUNICATIONS should be addressed to 

GEORGE D. DeSHIELDS, 

Manager Baltimore and Ohio Hotels, Cumberland, Md., up to June 10; 
after that date, either Deer Park or Oakland, Garrett Co., Md. 



<t r' r)f^ ^^^ ^*^°t '"^*i Upwards. Should double your money in 
• -/ * less than three vears. 



less than three years 



Don't fail to investigate Mills and Kline's Sub- 
division at Oakley, Ohio. The streets are all made, 
under-drained and side-w^alked throughout. Lots 
50x150 feet in size, at 

Prices from Rye (5.00) Dollars per front foot upwards. 

TEIRMS LIBEIRAU. 

In addition to the above w^e offer w^hat is known 
as Oakley Grove (a thirty acre tract), which is well 
adapted for subdividing. 

Oakley is the most accessible of any of Cincin- 
nati's suburbs, being not over four miles from the 
Court House by a magnificent driveway (Madison- 
ville Avenue), and is also reached by the B. & O. 
S. W. R. R. in less than a half hours ride. It is the 
cheapest property on the market. 

For full particulars apply to 

Mills cS6 Kline:, 

No. 18 \A/. Fourth St. Ol ncl n natl, O- 



^r' QT) P^^ Foot and Upwards. Should double your money in 
-^^ . less than three years. 



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